Creating A Ringtone In Itunes Help.

I've been trying to create a ringtone in iTunes using a song purchased from iTunes store. I keep getting this message.
Itunes could not connect to the iTunes store. An unknown error occurred(11556) Make sure your network connection is active and try again.
I am able to view the iTunes store and even purchase songs from it.

Yes, not all songs available in iTunes are able to be made into ringtones... if you see a Bell symbol next to the song then that one can be made into a Ringtone...
Otherwise you can still use iTunes to create your own from DRM free songs you already had...Google search will help give you a guide...

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Can I safely download 9.2, create a ringtone in the iTunes Store and not affect my current application?
Thanks for the help,
eAL

I am completely unable to use a purchased "ringtone" as a ringtone because iTunes will not recognize it as such. I have tried the instructions in the above article (numerous times), and found the same instructions all around google. I can NOT move a 30 sec clip I purchased today on iTunes from the music library to the ringtones on my iMac. It is my understanding from hours of researching this problem, that music sold on iTunes from a computer can NOT be used as ringtones because they are not truly ringtones?? Instead, I have to purchase music from the iPhone under the iTunes App > More > Ringtones. Is this correct?? I'm so beyond frustrated. Mac is NEVER this difficult. Why on earth would anyone want to purchase a 30 sec. clip of a song and NOT be able to use it as a ringtone? If this is truly the case then there should be a disclaimer in iTunes stating that fact.
I also discovered while following instructions from another post, that the song I just downloaded today is not under the "purchased" section of my iTunes account, yet it is in my music library. Huh?? How can that be? Is it because I've changed the format from m4a to m4r and it's now different than what I purchased?
I'm so confused and think I may have to resign myself to re-purchasing a lesser liked ringtone from the same song directly from my iPhone.

Can't "Sign in to create new ringtone" on iTunes...

Trying to create a ringtone in iTunes...after clicking on the bell icon, the ringtone editor begins to load, the Sign-In window appears (I'm already signed into my iTunes account BTW), and when I enter my account password (again), it fails and the Sign-In window reappears. This is when attempting to use a song that is already a purchased track in my Library...what's up with this?

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Creating a ringtone with iTunes (after song selection) is difficult!

Hey-
I'm having an issue with creating ringtones using the built in ringtone maker in iTunes after purchasing a eligable track from the iTunes store. There are some ringtones that I found on the iTunes store. There is one purchase where you get 6 seperate ringers (but in one audio file). I place the slider bars at the beginning of the ringer I want and then at the end of that ringer. When I go to play it back to make sure I'm getting what I want, it's not playing the correct ringer that it should be playing, but rather either the first ringer, or the 4th ringer...very odd! I know how to 'trim' clips as I do this daily with Windows Movie Maker...left slider starts at where you want the tune to start, the right slider stops at where you want the tune to end...very simple! Yet with the ringtone maker built into iTunes, it doesn't seem to work that way at all.
The tune that I am referring to is called "6 (or six) business ringtones" in iTunes (just do a search it will pop up)! It is one audio file, with 6 different ringtones in the file, the total file length is like 30 seconds (give or take). Well I like the 2nd ringtone. So after I bought the file, I then went into the ringtone maker in iTunes and dragged the slidders where the 2nd ringtone starts and ends, I then play it back but it doesn't play what I trimmed. Instead it plays other parts of the file (as in the 5th and 6th ringers or the 1st ringers or it starts playing the end of the 1st ringer and combines it into the 2nd ringer that I want. It doesn't seem to do what it's suppose to do and it's really starting to tick me off! I have all these charges from the iTunes store where I have been repeating trying to make the file because it's not working correctly and I'm getting all these charges on my credit card. All I want is for the ringtone maker to work correctly and make my tone as I'm telling it to do, but it won't. Does anyone know how to make this darn thing work correctly? If it wasn't for the file being DRM'd, I would drag it into my own program and do it myself with something I know works correctly. This clearly does not work correctly.
Any help would be appreciated.
Thanks.
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Have you tried this:
http://www.intomobile.com/2008/10/07/iphone-ringtones-create-free-iphone-rington es-using-itunes-8.html

Can't create a ringtone on itunes

When ever I try to create a ringtone a window pops up that says "itunes could not connect to the itunes store. an unknown error occurred (11556)". but my internet connection is working fine, any help would be appreciated.

Well, thanks very much, Roaminggnome!
It would have been nice of the brains at Apple (iTunes Dept) to have designed it better with the rest of the world's customers in mind wouldn't it? It's basic good manners to produce a version for their customers who DON"T live in the USA? Or at least have the brains and the manners to design the error message to say something like:
"Sorry, this service is only available in the US at the moment. We hope to release the service in your country in the very near future. Apologies for any inconvenience or disappointment caused"
Or are they just trying to be like Microsoft again?

How do I create a ringtone in itunes for my iphone?

I have itunes 10 and a iphone 3gs. I'd like to use one of the songs in my libarary to create a ringtone for my phone. What are the steps to doing this?

Set your iTunes import preferences to AAC encoder / HQ
Select the track you want to convert - right click - get info - Options
Select Start/Stop Time: Make sure that the resulting playtime is less then approx 39 sec - OK
Right-click again on that track: Create AAC version
Delete the resulting file from your iTunes library
Move it from Trash to your Desktop
Rename it from .m4a to .m4r
Double-Click that .m4r file

How do you create a ringtone on iTunes??

When I open up my iTunes account, there is a category under "library" that says ringtones. I try to drag a song from "music" to the ringtones section, and it wont go...
help?

You have to click on the Bell icon, make it, and then purchase it for an additonal $.99
http://www.apple.com/itunes/store/ringtones.html
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How to create iPhone ringtone from iTunes

I finally figured it out and made it easy for people so I wanted to share
[url]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=onjUg5FBMwc[/url]

Currently Ringtones are only available in the United States iTunes Store.
Unless this has changed recently and I did not see the news on it.
If you have a Mac you can use Garageband to create ringtones. Article below
http://support.apple.com/kb/HT1358?viewlocale=en_US

How to create ringtones through itunes on mac computer?

Okay so,
I've made ringtones before but it's been awhile and I know there used to be an option once you purchased the song that from there you could create a ringtone on your computer through itunes and pay 99c for it or whatever but I can't for the life of me find any option on how to create a ringtone. I've searched throughout itunes and looked through the FAQ and support and NOTHING talks about it except for on the iphone there is a section for ringtones but the selection seems extremely limited. Someone please help?

Type "create iphone ringtone in itunes" into the google search bar.
There are several ways to make ringtones.
I prefer garageband.

How do I create a ringtone?

I downloaded itunes 7.4 I can NOT find the option to create a ringtone.
Some help please.
thanks
bruce

that service isnt turned on yet... he said in the keynote that while they shipped the itunes software that would enable this feature, the feature itself will not be turned on until sometime next week. Why it was so urgent that they push it a week ahead of time? i dont know... probably because they figured they could spread the server demand out... 1,000,000 iphone customers + the normal people upgrading itunes... if you did it all in 1 night... their servers would likely crash. so they need a ramp up period.

How to download ringtone from itune?

How to set our own recorded song in itune as ringtones? Thanks.

There are several ways to create a ringtone from a song or sound file.
You can use itunes: Type "create iphone ringtone using itunes 10" or similar into the Google search bar.
You can use Garageband if you have a Mac.
Google will find several other ways as well.

How to create custom Ringtones (m4r files) from Songs in iTunes

Jakarta, 14 June 2013
On Mac OS : 10.7.5 (Lion)
On iTunes : 11.0.4
Difficulty : intermediate - hard
Assuming you know basic Ctrl+Click and Option+Drag...
Full correct steps should be like this :
1) Select a favourite song in iTunes program to be made into Ringtone...
2) "Get Info" on that song name and make any 0:30 seconds portion of that song....
(specify "Start" & "Stop" time - under "Options" – to any 30-seconds duration and click OK)
3) Right-click or Ctrl-Click again on same song name and select "Create AAC Version" to create an .m4a file...
(when done iTunes will create a Chime)
4) to locate the created .m4a file easily, Ctrl-Click again on same song name and select "Show in Finder" from the pop-up list...
(iTunes will automatically point the folder location of the original .mp3 & the newly created .m4a files... keep this window open for later...)
5) change the .m4a file to .m4r as suggested...
(rename to whatever you like but you must change the extension to .m4r)
6) At this point, the m4r(original) file isn't a "Ringtone" file yet... which we'll need to change now...)
(check under "Get Info" > "Kind" : it's still "Apple MPEG-4 Audio")
...1st by dragging that newly changed .m4r(ori) file to somewhere out of that same default folder it was created by iTunes...
{ this is where most confusions occur, take note here, it gets rather complicated }
7) Once it's outside of that folder, Double Click the m4r(ori) file and iTunes will play...
(u can stop it immediately...) this is just to let iTunes automatically convert that m4r(ori) file into a new duplicate & places it inside the initial default folder where the original .mp3 file is kept... we kept the window open previously, remember?
8) Locate that duplicate .m4r(new & true) file, in that same .mp3 folder and now DUPLICATE-Drag (press Option while dragging to get the "+" sign) it to the "TONES" folder in your default apple folder structure. (check under "Get Info", this .m4r(new) File's "Kind" should be "Ringtone")
//to get to that "TONES" Folder : First Locate your iTunes default Music Folder in your Mac --> usually it's in your Default "MUSIC" folder --> Navigate to "iTunes Media" --> Navigate to "Tones". !! Keep this window open to make the transfer manually !!
9) Once your duplicate is placed inside the "Tones" folder, double-click on that duplicate .m4r(true) file and let iTunes play, it should automatically place that ringtone file into the "Ringtone" sidebar List in the iTunes program... (check program to see)
Somehow u needed both duplicates : 1 – inside the default initial .mp3 folder & 1 – inside the Tones Folder which we Duplicate+Drag into... and both must be "Ringtone" – Kind... for this to work.
10) There you go. Now you can Sync / Delete / Add the whole Ringtone contents to your iPhone as you wish.
//Don't forget to set SYNC ON under the iphone "Tones" tab in your iTunes - iPhone screen... and click big SYNC button at the bottom of iTunes program & wait for the magic.
( Finally you can check inside your iPhone "Sounds" settings and hopefully if all steps done correctly, the bloodycomplicatedringtone selection will be there. Enjoy!

Hi --
I'm using iTunes 11.0.4 on OSX 10.8.4 and am having a hard time following your instructions to create a ringtone from a snippet of a .mp3 file using iTunes:
1) Select a favourite song in iTunes program to be made into Ringtone... CHECK!
2) "Get Info" on that song name and make any 0:30 seconds portion of that song.... CHECK !
3) Right-click or Ctrl-Click again on same song name and select "Create AAC Version" to create an .m4a file... PROBLEM!
It's when I hit Step 3 that I have a problem -- my "right click menu" at that point looks like this:
There's no option to "create AAC version." Nor does this option appear anywhere in iTunes that I can find.
It really shouldn't be this confusing to create a freaking ringtone. HELP PLEASE!

Create Ringtones in iTunes 10- AAC Version greyed out

Need assistance creating ringtones in iTunes 10:
I have iTunes 10 on a Windows PC. I went into Preferences, General, IMPORT SETTINGS and set it to AAC Encoder and HIGH QUALITY (128 bkps) and checked the Error Correction.
The AAC Version in the ADVANCED drop down is still showing as being GREYED out after selecting an MP3 with 0 and 30 seconds as the time limits in GET INFO for a song.
I have searched for a possible "fix" to get the AAC Version to be available. Nothing works so far. HELP!!
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I had the same problem until I realized that I first need to buy the song and then create the ringtone from the already purchased song. The instructions could have been made clearer on this, and it would be great if you could use the ring tone creation tool to check if the song really fits before you buy the song…
Good luck

I followed the instructions on creating a ringtone from a song in my library. It's not creating my 40 sec ringtone in my library to drag to ringtone section. Pls help

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Okay, so here is what happend.
I deleted the song from my library since iTunes would not allow me to delete it from the purchased item list. Then i pluged my phone into my computer and got this message:
"iTunes has found purchased items on the iPhone “Paul’s iPhone” that are not present in your iTunes library. Do you want to transfer these items from this iPhone back to your iTunes library?"
I selected "Transfer" and it showed up with a dotted circle next to it where a a song number would normally be displayed. Then fter a couple of minutes the dotted circle magically dissapered and was replaced by a number just like all of the other songs in my library.
And best of all...it plays!!!
Thanks for you help!!

I'm having trouble with custom ringtones. I have downloaded the free software "makeTones" and have created some ringtones. I then copied those to Mac and played them in ITunes. My Itunes does not have a ringtone tab. I can not sync the ringtones.

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Yes, the file extension is M4R. Does it matter where I save these files on my Macbook? I then opened them in Itunes and played them. I did find the Tones folder in Itunes but the Tones or Ringtones tab does not show up when I select Iphone (within Itunes). When I open the Tones folder in the Library, it is empty. Thanks in advance for your help.

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